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After a department recommends a colleague for tenure, the dean of the Faculty and four academic deans review the case and decide whether to convene an ad hoc committee for further review...
...which is run under the auspices of the United Nations, was designed as a permanent replacement for the temporary ad hoc agencies that have prosecuted war crimes in the past...
Most recently, there was the community uproar surrounding last April’s “sufficient independent corroboration” policy recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administrative Board (The Ellison Committee). The Committee drew fire from CASV and many other student groups for the secrecy with which it operated, and the hurried way the report was passed by the faculty. The corroboration rule itself was criticized as a 30-year step backwards. This new rule focused attention yet again on the issue of sexual violence at Harvard, and was an important factor in the creation...
University President Lawrence H. Summers approved the promotion of Islamic art historian David J. Roxburgh to the rank of senior professor yesterday only hours after an ad hoc committee recommended the move...
...years old, the acting platoon leader for the 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company. We were charged with one of the most dangerous missions that day, and we had been training for it since April. After we landed on the beach of Pointe du Hoc, which was between Omaha and Utah beaches, we were supposed to climb the 100-foot-high cliffs and take out the German cannons we believed were stationed there. The guns had a 10-to 12-mile range and were a danger to the forces landing at Utah and Omaha...